The KOR-FX haptic feedback vest has launched on Kickstarter

Wiimote, PS Eye/Camera/Move, Kinect, Oculus VR. Gaming, at least the hardcore kind, is moving towards a trend that ditches controllers and screens for the instruments that we already have: our bodies. But while our eyes, ears, and hands are more less fooled and pulled into the illusion, the rest of our bodies aren’t so much. Until now, that is. Introducing KOR-FX, a gaming vest with a haptic feedback system. In short, it lets your upper torso feel almost everything you should be feeling if you were actually living inside the game. OK, it is “cheating” a bit. It isn’t exactly letting you feel everything but only what you would be hearing. Sounds a bit confusing? Think of it like surround, except that the audio is converted into directed haptic feedback that resonates inside your chest to effectively fool your brain that a bullet did pass you by, for example.